Truth be told, I was skeptical.
Was this worth the cowry shell equivalent?
My mind was a dry skin covered foot caught on a fleece blanket.
My tongue, lined with the taste of that earthy bile.
Distant isles between Alaska and Ayahuasca,
but it all comes rushing back. Jungle visions.
-
I
        take
                    ten
               ­              sickly      
                                          steps
                ­                                     toward
                                                          ­         the
                                                             ­              teetering  
                                                     ­                                      ethereal
                                                        ­                                                  edge.
-
She's once again lined with that finespun glow.
I'm once again letting the little things go.
She's letting me know for the very first time.
I'm struggling to find words for the very last rhyme.
-
                                        Trudging
       ­     tip-toed
through
                                           ­                       the
                  nonlinear
      narr­ative;
                                       elegantly
                                                       ­     elephantine.
-
Lick your wounds, traveler.
Set your eyes to the pale star's gleam.
Dogma unraveller
with an elementary scheme.
We are nature's instruments.
We are watchers in the night.
Softened slightly by the dissonance
of the dearly departed Wight.
-
He's slipping in and out.
Orbium linguam avium.
Labra lege: hic sunt dracones.
Let us dine on cremated elves.
-
     m sw ll   w  ng sw rds   nd st rs.
R zn hdzooldrmt hdliwh zmw hgzih.
I a         a  o   i          o      a         a  .
I am swallowing swords and stars.
-
.ecnatsbus em evig dna eniltuo ym nekraD
.savnac eruza siht otno seye s'ti tsac dluow nuS eht hsiw I
?suhpysiS fo redluob eht I mA
.noitcerid gnorw eht ni gnilbmut no peek I
-
We're sailing on the calmest of waters,
but there is not a drop to drink.
Bad news for the boy who only rejects omens.
I will not hang a dead bird around my neck.
Retrace the lace and my hazy days of habit,
then let me know your honest opinion.
Exhibit an execution by exsiccation of the most exuberant exiles.
Or am I the only one who's thirsty?
-
                                                      ­                      Who here is the ghost?
I know **** well it's not me.
                                                             ­                            Who said that?
I know I did.
                                                            ­                                        Didn't I?
Couldn't be.                                                              ­            
                                                    ­                                                    Am I?No.                                  
                         ­           Hopper, this isn't sinking in.
I am not a liar.
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I was supposed to be writing something down.
Some kind of secret; some kind of rune.
Can you help me find our primal core?
Your carnal truths are mine to keep.
Weren't you supposed to be going somewhere?
The flea burrow, no, The Doubling House.
For in those halls of mold and paper walls
your memories were uneagerly forged.
It's time to shed your summer skin
and begin to eat with your hands.

in the arctic air
the sins of the tundra are
absolved
                in passing

Es una tarde mustia y desabrida
de un otoño sin frutos, en la tierra
estéril y raída
donde la sombra de un centauro yerra.
      Por un camino en la árida llanura,
entre álamos marchitos,
a solas con su sombra y su locura
va el loco, hablando a gritos.
      Lejos se ven sombríos estepares,
colinas con malezas y cambrones,
y ruinas de viejos encinares,
coronando los agrios serrijones.
      El loco vocifera
a solas con su sombra y su quimera.
Es horrible y grotesta su figura;
flaco, sucio, maltrecho y mal rapado,
ojos de calentura
iluminan su rostro demacrado.
      Huye de la ciudad... Pobres maldades,
misérrimas virtudes y quehaceres
de chulos aburridos, y ruindades
de ociosos mercaderes.
      Por los campos de Dios el loco avanza.
Tras la tierra esquelética y sequiza
-rojo de herrumbre y pardo de ceniza-
hay un sueño de lirio en lontananza.
      Huye de la ciudad. ¡El tedio urbano!
-¡carne triste y espíritu villano!-.
 No fue por una trágica amargura
esta alma errante desgajada y rota;
purga un pecado ajeno: la cordura,
la terrible cordura del idiota.